#universities

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#education #k-12 #needs #priority #technical

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspects #building #character #comes #educated

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#attracting #colleges #competitive #continuing #economy

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#exchange #free #here #ideas #mediums

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#market #notoriously #now #oriented #suddenly

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us. ↗

— David Milne

#around #attractive #being #coming #company